https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029092892Oh my.
oberliner (43,472 posts) Sat May 20, 2017, 10:22 AM
6 Months Ago: HuffPost Forecasts Hillary Clinton Will Win With 323 Electoral Votes
The HuffPost presidential forecast model gives Democrat Hillary Clinton a 98.2 percent chance of winning the presidency. Republican Donald Trump has essentially no path to an Electoral College victory.
Clinton’s win will be substantial, but not overwhelming. The model projects that she’ll garner 323 electoral votes to Trump’s 215.
Senate Outlook
The Senate is likely to shift to a Democratic majority, with 51 seats, or 50 seats and Tim Kaine as the vice presidential tie-breaker. The HuffPost model says there’s a 66 percent chance Democrats will get 51 or more seats, and a 25 percent chance the chamber ends up with each party at 50 seats.
...giving Feingold a 98 percent chance of winning.
... this one is called for McGinty.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/polls-hillary-clinton-win_us_5821074ce4b0e80b02cc2a94
Still can't believe how everything ended up playing out. How different the world would be if things had turned out the way everyone said that they would.
Well, whoop-de-doo. Maybe things weren't meant to be as "everyone" said they would.
That's life. Anything can happen, and usually does.
Long thread, sometimes funny, as the primitives give their usual excuses.
Mr. Ected (3,057 posts) Sat May 20, 2017, 10:28 AM
3. President Clinton would have been totally stymied by now
Republicans in Congress would be introducing resolutions of impeachment on a daily basis. Her agenda would have been tabled in lieu of partisan interference.
Yes, I wish she had been elected. I wouldn't live each day in fear like I do right now under a Trump presidency. Merrick Garland might be sitting on the SC. The ACA would not have been disemboweled. But let's not pretend that she could have been effective in rolling out her policies. Not in this current environment of Congressional fascism.
Hassin Bin Sober (16,801 posts) Sat May 20, 2017, 10:53 AM
10. Yep. A week before the election, Nate Silver was. ..
... attempting to temper euphoria.
Du's answer was "**** him, look at the Princeton poll!!!"
stevenleser (30,744 posts) Sat May 20, 2017, 11:28 AM
21. Some folks always leave out facts that don't support a certain narrative
And can't look into the mirror and figure out their own biases. Leaving out facts and whataboutism do not belong on DU.*
*but it's there, and all over Skins's island. There's not a single nook or cranny in the whole place that isn't full of this.
Lurks Often (5,134 posts) Sat May 20, 2017, 10:58 AM
11. Those of us who were skeptical of those polls were shouted down and
sometimes alerted on. People believe the polls that tell them want they wanted to hear and ignored and ridiculed the polls that hinted at anything other then HRC winning.
And just so I am clear I NEVER thought Sanders could win the general election.*
*of course not, despite that conventional wisdom usually says otherwise; the public would inevitably--and
before casting their ballots--see what a grouchy old sourass sourpuss the hoary white-haired crank from Vermont was.
